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Pneumoconiosis

Volume 884: debated on Tuesday 21 January 1975

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many workers in Welsh stone quarries have been registered during the last 10 years as suffering from pneumoconiosis.

Information is available only from 1967. The table below shows the number of persons first diagnosed for industrial injury purposes at the Welsh pneumoconiosis medical panels as having pneumoconiosis which was attributed to slate quarrying or mining, slate splitting or other stone quarrying.

Slate quarryingSlate splittingOther quarrying
19678134
196818246
196921154
197015243
19715112
197210181
19735161
8212121